It also has moments of explosive comedy, not so arbitrarily set in the New Orleans zoo, a picturesque restaurant in the French Quarter and the old French Market.įrom time to time the jolly banter between Jane and Jeff comes close to being twee, but often it is as laugh-out-loud funny as it means to be.
#UNDERCOVER BLUES MOVIE#
The movie has enough style to make you overlook reason and the occasionally erratic continuity. Reason is beside the point of "Undercover Blues," as written by Ian Abrams and directed by Herbert Ross. Jeff immediately makes a lifetime enemy of Muerte (Stanley Tucci), a vicious but hilariously incompetent mugger he calls Morty. When first met, they have just arrived in New Orleans to get away from it all. Jane and Jeff are wise-cracking, loving, incredibly adept American spies on maternity leave in New Orleans with their baby daughter in constant tow.Įxactly what agency might be employing Jane and Jeff is never clear, though they have apparently worked for both the C.I.A. It stars Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid, playing extremely well together, as Jane and Jeff Blue, who recall Nora and Nick Charles without making you wince. Possibly because of those signs, or at least in part, "Undercover Blues" turns out to seem a most genial surprise, a comic update of cold war espionage movies that, because of the New Orleans location, has the enhanced charm of a stolen holiday. The movie was made a year ago, but opened in New York theaters only yesterday. The new film also uses New Orleans locations with the tenacity of a sightseer who won't rest until his feet bleed. Because it relies so heavily on manners identified with either the James Bond or "Thin Man" movies, you might suspect that "Undercover Blues" would be a sort of hybrid rip-off.
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